Mario Aguilar

Nikon D7100: A Loaded Intermediate DSLR Might Be Just Right

Over the last year, Nikon has replaced its two bottom DSLRs with the D3200 and D5200 refreshes. The new D7100 is the latest DX format camera bump, replacing the dated D7000 from three years ago. https://gizmodo.com/nikon-d3200-lightning-review-where-were-you-two-years-5921303 The D7100 is the last APS-C sensor camera in the line before you move up to a professional full-frame…

Sony Just Had a Two Hour PS4 Event With No PS4

After showing us tons of awesome looking games, Sony straight up denied us the console. We have specs, we’ve seen the controller, but we haven’t seen the box. Or triangle, or orb, or whatever this non-existant hardware for the PlayStation 4 might look like. Oh and no price or release date, either. We don’t even…

PlayStation 4 Has 16x More RAM Than PS3 or Xbox 360

The new PlayStation 4 has 8 GB of RAM, which is a huge industry-leading number. But it’s even crazier when you realize that the Playstation 3 only had 512 MB of RAM—256 for the system and 256 for video. The Xbox 360 has the same. https://gizmodo.com/the-playstation-4-is-here-update-sort-of-5985701 The new RAM will enable the new “suspend/resume” functionality…

Watch Sony’s PlayStation 4 Announcement Live Right Here

It’s finally time to find out what Sony’s got in store for us. Playstation 4, baby! Watch the embedded stream below to find out what awesome games and features Sony’s gonna unload on us. Get pumped.

Your Brain at Work Looks Like Pyrotechnics Exploding In the Sky

In the future, when doctors read your mind they won’t see repressed scenes from your childhood—they’ll see neurons exploding like chains of firecrackers. Scientists at Stanford have developed a method for observing real-time activity in the brains of mice. You can see the stunning results of the work in the video above. One day, scientists…

Police Informed a Mother About Her Son’s Death Over Facebook

On January 24th, Ricky Lamb was hit by a car and killed. His body sat in the morgue until Valentine’s Day, though, because the incompetent local police only contacted the family over Facebook. It took a month for Lamb’s mother to find the message. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the ordeal of Anna Lamb-Creasey, who had…

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Sony NEX-3N: The Awesomest Beginner Mirrorless Camera Is Now Smaller and Lighter

We’re big fans of Sony’s line of mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. Sony Europe just announced NEX-3N, the latest update to the starter NEX camera. We loved last year’s NEX-F3, and, really, we should be elated that Sony has made it considerably smaller and lighter to make it more appealing to entry-level customers. Alas, we’ve got mixed…

Watch a Chinese Hacker Launch an Invasion in Real Time

Are the Chinese after us? According to a new report, yes. Security firm Mandiant has detailed the exploits of a Chinese cyber espionage group it calls APT1. Mandiant claims to have evidence that APT1 has stolen “hundreds of terabytes of data” from 141 American organizations. Evidence that includes this video of an elite Chinese hacker…

Joey Roth Ceramic Subwoofer Review: Wonderful, Elegant, and, Sadly, Not For Everyone

A few years ago we had the pleasure of reviewing a pair of odd, conical, ceramic speakers by California-based designer Joey Roth. They were spectacular. Now Roth has built out the system with a beautiful ceramic subwoofer. https://gizmodo.com/joey-roths-ceramic-computer-speakers-review-500-gives-5378529 What Is It? A ceramic subwoofer with a 6.5-inch active driver. It comes with a 50-Watt amplifier…

What Is an UltraPixel?

Did you hear about the HTC One’s fancy new “UltraPixel Camera”? HTC touts the camera as an end to the “megapixel wars.” UltraPixels! Revolution! And, yes, the technology sounds very promising, but, uh, wait a second, what is an UltraPixel anyway? https://gizmodo.com/htc-one-the-great-white-hype-is-here-5985305 UltraPixel is a made up marketing word… HTC’s new phone only has a…

Nvidia Tegra 4i: Quad-Core Processing and LTE For Mobile Awesome

Just over a month after announcing the Tegra 4 processor, Nvidia’s back with another mobile chipset, the Tegra T4i, which comes with an integrated LTE modem. It’s designed specifically for use with smartphones. Where the Tegra 4 is all about raw power for big phones and tablets, the Tegra 4i is a marvel of tiny…

Paul Vo Has Made an Entirely New and Impossibly Awesome Instrument

Inventor Paul Vo has developed an entirely new way to modify the sound of instruments. Stringed instruments for now, at least. Before I twist your brain into knots trying to explain how it works, take a moment to listen to the Vo-96 acoustic synthesizer in the video above. Moog teased this concept as the LEV-96…

The Best Smartphone Camera

A zillion new smartphones are going to be announced soon at Mobile World Congress, each promising camera advancements that may or may not live up to the hype. Before we get there, though, we wanted to take stock of how good the cameras are in the smartphones you can buy now. Here’s how the flagships…

Israeli Lunatic Sniper Instagrams a Photo of a Child in His Crosshairs

The Israeli Defense Forces has a history of overzealous campaigns on its official social media accounts. So maybe we shouldn’t be surprised that an IDF sniper doesn’t take his job very seriously. Or that’s the impression we get, since he Instagrammed a photo of what appears to be a Palestinian child in the crosshairs of…

80,000 Suckers Fired Off Tweets Celebrating LinkedIn Spam

Last week, on February 11th, Alexandra Watson (aka @happinesscoach) received a very exciting email in her inbox and promptly tweeted the news out to her 66,000 followers: Hurray, I am so super-duper popular on LinkedIn. My life now has meaning. She’s not that special. Watson is one of 20 million people who received an email…

Alie Layus: Hit You (NSFW)

Holy wow, what the hell did my eyes just see. I feel like I’m sexist just for watching this music video for “Hit You” by Playboy Playmate turned “DJ” Alie Layus. Summary: Sexy models getting pummeled with junk food in slow-motion. As for “Hit You”, the song, I don’t really want to get into it—I’ll…

Facebook Got Hacked Last Month and Is Just Telling You Now (Update: Facebook Comment)

Facebook just announced that it was hacked last month in a short statement on its website. Apparently, an unknown number employees visited a compromised developer site and were infected with malware. Facebook’s being very cagey about all this, but we’ve been able to scrounge up some details. According to the statement, the company reacted swiftly…

Let’s Talk About Anything You Want for the Next Hour

Hey, guess what? It’s Friday! We’re sure you’re feeling just as restless as we are, so to help the day fly by, we’ll be hanging around this thread to talk about anything you want for the next hour. Seriously! Killer meteors! Apple Rumors! Twisted Fantasies! Everything’s fair game. So go nuts. This is a safe…

Haze: Turn Your Weather Forecast Into Psychedelic Art

The Weather Channel’s app has had you covered on the basics of your local forecast for eons. It ain’t pretty, but if you want to know what the chance of precipitation will be 3AM, it’ll give you a number. Haze takes that raw data and packages it into something simple and beautiful. Haze’s weather forecasts…